Week of May 29, 2017 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, May 29
Smartest Way to Deal With Russia? Ignore Putin
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Vietnam's Uhealed Wounds
Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, New York Times
America the Quagmire Country
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Stalin As A Study Aid For North Korea
Paul Roderick Gregory, Hoover Institution
Terrorism Is Not Random
Kevin Williamson, National Review
Trump's Trip Was a Catastrophe for U.S.-Europe Relations
David Frum, The Atlantic
Macron Is The Anti-Putin
Isabelle Mandraud, Worldcrunch
The Essays of Zbigniew Brzezinski
Foreign Affairs
Attack on Trump Looks Like Russian Disinformation Campaign
J. Pollak, Breitbart
Right from Wrong: Manchester, Abbas and Evil Losers
Ruthie Blum, Jerusalem Post
Tuesday, May 30
Merkel Turns Transatlantic Tides
Annett Meiritz, Anna Reimann & Severin Weiland, Spiegel
The End of the West: Merkel's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Gideon Rachman, Fin. Times
Manuel Noriega, Panamanian Strongman, Dead at 83
Randal Archibold, NY Times
End of History Is the Birth of Tragedy
Hal Brands & Charles Edel, Foreign Policy
The End of the Post-National Illusion
Ghia Nodia, Journal of Democracy
Can Cambodia Make Electoral History This Week?
Rachael Burton, RealClearWorld
The Summer of Our Discontent
Andy Langenkamp, RealClearWorld
Macron Bosses Putin at Versailles
Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
What Happens After ISIS Goes Underground
Colin Clarke & Chad Serena, Nat'l Interest
Is the Tide Turning in Scotland?
Sheila Gilmore, Progress
The Hallowed Center Ground in UK Politics Has Moved Left
Steve Richards, Guardian
Never Mind the UK Polls - Watch the Target Seats
Paul Goodman, Conservative Home
Tories Running Worst Campaign in Living Memory?
Paris Gourtsoyannis, Scotsman
A New Chapter in Ukraine's Weary Language Wars
Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Europe
How Many Lives Could WHO's $200 Mil Travel Budget Save?
Alex Berezow, ACSH
Andrew Scheer Is the Safer Pair of Hands For Canada's Tories
Andrew Coyne, N-Post
The Canadian Right's Answer to Trudeau
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
Understanding the Bangla Boom
Dan Kopf, Quartz
Can Macron Drain the French Swamp?
Jean-Louis Gassee, Monday Note
Wednesday, May 31
Europeans Taking Hold of Their Own Fate? Quelle Catastrophe!
Matt Welch, Reason
Why the Decline of Europe's Center-Left Matters
Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor
America First Doesn’t Mean America Alone
H.R. McMaster & Gary Cohn, WS Journal
Europe, the Jilted Spouse, Turns Away
Jeet Heer, New Republic
NATO’s Diminishing Military Function
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
Unfinished Business: Making America Safe Again
Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
Groundhog Day For Terrorism
Cal Thomas, Washington Times
Can Iran Finally Break Free?
Christopher Hill, Project Syndicate
The Left’s Unilateral Suicide Pact
Heather MacDonald, City Journal
The Tories Lose Altitude
John O'Sullivan, National Review
Egypt: The New Dictatorship
Joshua Hammer, New York Review of Books
U.S. Under Trump Keeps a Steady Hand in the Balkans
Florian Bieber, Balkan Insight
The CSTO and How Russia Exploits Its Allies
Maxim Starchak, Intersection Project
The U.K. Inches Toward a Security State
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker
Here's How Trump Can Win America's Longest War
Paul Miller, Foreign Policy
A New Monasticism For the 21st Century?
Rowan Williams, New Statesman
British Election Only Postpones the Big Questions
Robert Colvile, CapX
Thursday, June 1
Unreliable America: It Goes Far Beyond Trump
Kenneth Schultz, Monkey Cage
3 Lessons to Avert Global Decline
Louis Rene Beres, Yale Global
China's Pivot to Europe Is Gathering Steam Fast
Stephan Faris & Charles Lee, Pol. EU
My Foreign Policy Mixtape
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
Trump Is No Realist
Paul Pillar, LobeLog
U.S. and the Paris Accord: The World Awaits
Michael Shear & Coral Davenport, NYTimes
Corbyn and May Are Proving That Campaigns Still Matter
J. Freedland, Guardian
What to Call Britain's Conservatives
Economist
Tory Victories in Scotland Could Beget a Labour Revival
J. Rampen, New Statesman
The City in Pakistan That Loves a British Hairstyle
Secunder Kermani, BBC
Panama to Afghanistan, the Long Tail of American Hubris
B. Wittes, Worldcrunch
The Growing Distance Between Delhi and Moscow
Harsh Pant, The Diplomat
The U.S. Just Pulled Off an Important Missile Defense Test
Alex Ward, Vox
Cambodia's Opposition Between Victory and Oblivion
Cristina Maza, WP Review
The Past Is a Foreign Country
John Steele Gordon, Commentary
Even After Lost Decade Putin Won't Fix Economy
Pismennaya et al, Bloomberg
Donald Trump's (Not So) Excellent World Tour
Aaron D. Miller & Richard Sokolsky, TNI
Friday, June 2
Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America
Daniel Baer et al., Foreign Policy
Top 7 Worst Reasons to Keep the Paris Climate Accord
John Hayward, Breitbart
The Blueprint for Saving Venezuela
Srdja Popovic & Slobodan Djinovic, RealClearWorld
Why Is Paris Agreement So Partisan?
Maggie Koerth-Baker, FiveThirtyEight
The White House Is an Axis of Selfishness
David Brooks, New York Times
Trump Defends the Constitution and the Economy
David French, National Review
Managing Expectations for NAFTA
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Trump Ignores World Concerns
Moritz Koch et al, Handelsblatt
Obama's Climate Policy Lived by Pen, Should Die by Trump
Mary K. Ham, Federalist
Jerry Brown Flies to China
David Siders, Politico
Climate’s Brexit Moment
Sara Stefanini, Politico EU
10 Reasons to Vote For Theresa May
Douglas Carswell, Conservative Home
Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister?
Chris Mullin, Spectator
The World Is Walking All Over Trump
Matt Bai, Yahoo News
Europe: Paris Is a Done Deal, Donald
Peter Teffer, EU Observer
Are the Western Balkans Being Re-Balkanized?
Paul McCarthy, The American Interest
Preventing Famine and Protecting U.S. Interests
Reid Hamel, CSIS
UK Election: Latest polls in June 8 vote
Saturday, June 3
The End of an Era
Jamie Kirchick, Frankfurter Allgemeine
To Die for Estonia?
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The Transatlantic Relationship Is Overrated
Christopher Preble, National Interest
A Chancellor Walks Into a Beer Tent...
Peter Sparding, Out of Order
Europe Doesn't Buy China's New Slick Road
Johnny Erling, Worldcrunch
Ramadan: A Holy and Violent Month
Kamran Bokhari, Geopolitical Futures
Paris and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation Efforts
Eric Gomez, Cato@Liberty
Trump Gives Europe Its Swagger Back
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Putin's Trump-Supported Hybrid War on the West
John Besemeres, Lowy Interpreter
Ukraine Wins Battle With Gazprom
Deutsche Welle
Ireland Looks Set for a Young, Gay Prime Minister
Economist
The West Needs to Stand Up to Trump
Chris Deerin, CapX
Fitting Into Beijing’s New World Order
Andrew Browne, Wall Street Journal
Trump and Paris -- Let the Negotiations Begin
Newt Gingrich, Fox News
The New York Times Just Outed the CIA's Top Iran Spy
Bre Payton, Federalist
Putin May Want to Pick a Male Interviewer Next Time
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloom. View
Theresa May Is the Tories' Gordon Brown
Alex Massie, Spectator
Jeremy Corbyn's Surge Owes a Nod to Bernie Sanders
John Cassidy, New Yorker
Why Corbyn the Disaster Has Become a Beacon For Change
C. Campbell, Guardian
UK June 8 ELECTION: Latest polls | Labour headed toward worst result?
Sunday, June 4
Van Attack, Stabbings Strike Fear in London
Estelle Shirbon & William James, Reuters
After Attack, PM May Says Britain Must Contain Extremism
Danica Kirka et al., AP
Will the UK Let May Tackle Islamist Terror?
David Horovitz, Times of Israel
What I Saw on London Bridge
Will Heaven, The Spectator
Arrival of Migrants Fueling a German Identity Crisis
Stephanie Kirchner, Wash Post
Merkel's Calculated Confrontation With Trump
Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
The Case for Nations
Roger Scruton, Wall Street Journal
Trump Pulling Out of Paris Agreement Great News for China
Zeeshan Aleem, Vox
Don't Cry for the Paris Agreement
Shikha Dalmia, The Week
Trump’s NATO Bombast Gets Us Where Statesmanship Can’t
Michael Kinsley, NYT
If Trump Wants a Fight in the Mideast, Iran Will Give Him One
Afshon Ostovar, FP
British Columbia Lobs a Bombshell at Trudeau
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
Are British Pollsters Headed Toward Another Miss?
Economist
Fear Penetrates Kabul After Deadly Cycle of Violence
Shereena Qazi, Al Jazeera
American Retirees Head to Latin America
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man
Michael Lista, The Walrus
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